Custom status messages are coming to Slack

 AFK, BRB, in a coffee meeting or what not — Slack, with its constant stream of…

Slack developers get another small tool to fill out their bot functionality

 Slack, which at times can sometimes seem allergic to product changes, is making an alteration and…

Talla service bot lets IT ease into AI

 Talla, a Cambridge, MA startup wants to help companies ease into artificial intelligence, and they have…

The great enterprise chat race

 The competitive deck appears nearly stacked against the startup, and it seems that every other month a…

Niles is a Slack bot that learns your teams questions and answers them so you don’t have to

 Most chat bots are dumb. No one wants to message a soulless stack of if-then statements…

Serial founder and former Slack PM Simon Vallee is starting a personal productivity company

 Simon Vallee is exactly the kind of person who venture capitalists like to keep on their…

Crunch Report| Airbnb Raises $1 Billion

Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000 plus an annual management fee, Airbnb closes Series F to go…

FundersClub experiments with the full-service online VC model at scale

 Slowly disproving stereotypes, the online VC has established itself as a viable tool for tech finance.…